[mythtv-users] Recording Priority = 99 not a trump all?

David Engel david at istwok.net
Wed Jun 23 22:30:10 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 02:55:27PM -0700, Douglas Peale wrote:
> On 06/23/2010 02:33 PM, David Engel wrote:
> > No, the priority scheme is not broken.  Your understanding of how the
> > scheduler uses it is broken.  When SchedMoveHigher is enabled, the
> > scheduler moves recordings around one at a time and the first fit
> > wins.  it does not continue on looking for "better" fits.
> > Consequently, recordings might get moved to lower priority inputs or
> > channels.
> > 
> > If you want to see how the scheduler arrives at its result, add "-v
> > schedule" to your mythbackend command line.  If you don't have any
> > off-line slaves, you can perform a dummy schedule by running
> > "mythbackend -v schedule --testsched".
> > 
> 
> The example I cite is a recording of NCIS on ION. I have 7 copies of ION on my system 1 OTA HD, 3 cable HD, and 3 cable SD. All
> three cable SD channels had a priority of -10 the rest were priority 0. There was nothing else scheduled at that time that would
> match any of my recording criteria. No conflicts.
> 
> So, you contend that in this situation for the scheduler to choose a SD channel over an HD channel is not a bug?

I contend you have something misconfigured or these is more to it than
what you've said here.  I suspect the output from "mythbackend -v
schedule --testsched" would be very enlightening.

> >> I have worked around this bug by disabling the SD versions. I don't like this workaround though, because when Comcast plays
> >> musical channels again it will be hard to notice that the hidden channels have changed since they are hidden.
> > 
> > If you never want the SD channels to be used, then you should mark
> > them as invisible.  That's what I do.
> > 
> > David
> 
> That is what I just said I have done.

And I was simply reinforcing that that is the way to do it.

David
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